|
|
Medford
News: 1908 Medford-related
news items from
1908. Also see
descriptions
of Medford and
Jackson County
for this year.
COL. S. T. HOWARD DEAD.
George Faucett, agent for
the Wells Fargo Express co., is now domiciled in his new office on the
south side of 7th Street opposite the S.P. depot. The location is much
more convenient for his work, and he has more room than in his old
quarters.Well-Known Panhandle Citizen Passes Away at Medford, Oregon.
When the news reached here Dec. 27th, 1907, announcing the death of
Col. S. T. Howard, December 26th at about 6 p.m., it was a shock to the
community, but was not unexpected to those friends and relations who
knew his condition, for he had been in failing health for several
months.
Col. Howard was well known and identified with the interests and development of North Central and Northwest Texas. Having moved from Loudon, Tennessee in 1886 and had lived here since that time until about a year ago when he moved to Medford, Oregon, hoping to improve his health. He had lived at Weatherford, Decatur, Quanah and Hereford, and in each of these places he had been a strong, useful factor in its development and interests. He had seen the vast unbroken ranges of Texas become the happy and prosperous homes of thousands. His strong, determined character [and] his love for meeting and overcoming difficulties eminently fitted him for a pioneer. He was a man of many interests, and while laboring to bring about material good he also helped to establish and support schools and churches wherever he went. He did much public work that will be long remembered. He was always prominent in the livestock interests. He was proud of the fact that he owned at one time the sweepstakes herd of Jersey and Hereford cattle of Texas. Many will remember his very efficient work at Austin against the passage of "The Quarantine Bill." He left his own interests here and worked with his usual zeal, for the good of the community north of the quarantine line. He moved from Quanah to Hereford in the spring of 1902, having purchased a ranch of 20,000 acres 20 miles northwest of Hereford, during the time stocked with high-grade cattle. He was identified with every interest for the upbuilding and advancement of the community. He was active and zealous in church work, being an elder of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. He was also a Mason of high standing. Col. Howard was born Aug. 24, 1842 in Johnson County, Tennessee. After reaching manhood he was engaged in the mercantile and livestock business until he moved to Texas in 1886 and located at Weatherford. Col. Howard was married early in life to Miss Charlott Isador Kimbrough, a lady of great charm of character who made him a most devoted wife and loyal helpmeet and a tender, loving mother to his children of whom there were ten; nine of this large family survive him. At his bedside at the time of his death was his loving wife and six of his children, Rev. John K., S. T. Jr., H. D., Rhome, Miss Myra and Willie Howard. The other surviving children are Mrs. H. Wildy Lea and Mrs. C. C. Ferguson of Hereford, Texas and H. P. D. Howard of Amarillo, Texas. He was buried at Medford, Oregon, Dec. 27, 1907. A FRIEND.
----
Dec. 29.--News reached
here last night of the death of Col. S. T. Howard yesterday evening at
Medford, Oregon.COL. S. T. HOWARD DEAD. Col. Howard was one of the largest land owners of the Hereford country and was well known all over this part of Texas. He has been in failing health for several years, and it was partly in the hope of receiving benefit that he went to Oregon. His son H. P. D. Howard has made Amarillo his home and headquarters for the past two years in the real estate business, but at the present time is in Missouri looking after business affairs. Col. Howard has other children living at Hereford.--Daily Panhandle. The Hereford Brand, Hereford, Texas, January 3, 1908, page 4 "City Happenings," Medford Mail, January 17, 1908, page 5 J. Stilwell Vilas, formerly of Kaukauna, Wis., arrived Monday with his family. He bought 180 acres northeast of Medford this summer and is putting it out to fruit as fast as he can possibly set the trees. His 15-room bungalow will be the most modern of its kind in the valley, when completed. "Purely Personal," Medford Mail, January 24, 1908, page 5 J. M. Hurley and P. M. Kershaw were about Medford this week collecting money from the several merchants who recently subscribed toward the construction of a wagon road leading into Medford from the Hill Road running between Jacksonville and Central Point. They secured $450 in cash, which amount will be deposited with the county officials and will be used in defraying any expense which may be incurred in securing right-of-way and in construction. The proposed new road will leave the Jacksonville-Central Point valley road at the Ross place and run west between the Ed Hanley and Will Stewart places and across the Armstrong place to the Hill Road, about three miles north from Jacksonville, and it will be about one and a quarter miles in length, but will shorten the distance between Medford and that point fully three miles. There are a number of farmers in that locality who will appreciate the convenience of the shorter cut--and there are many more tracts of fruit land over there being opened up and set to fruit--and all of this will now be directly tributary to Medford. At the Ross place this new road will connect with the one running into Medford past the Jones farm and north of the Ish tract. "City Happenings," Medford Mail, February 7, 1908, page 5 F. W. Thompson visited in Glen Elder last night with his brother, S. H. Thompson, who in company with Maurice Brown, of Blue Hill, left this morning for Medford, Oregon, where it is their intention to locate. "Arrival and Departure," Beloit Daily Call, Beloit, Kansas, March 3, 1908, page 4
Samuel R. Taylor
The Jacksonville, Oregon, Post,
of May 9 chronicles the death of Samuel R. Taylor, in that place on May
2nd. Deceased arrived in Oregon from Illinois in 1852, and was well
known throughout Southern Oregon and Northern California. The Post says:It will be remembered that Mr. Taylor was one of the first stage drivers in Oregon and also an early freighter. He drove the stage from Myrtle Point through the rich mineral belt of Jackson County to Crescent City. His habits were temperate, and he bore an excellent social reputation. Del Norte Record, Crescent City, May 16, 1908, page 3 To the People of Jackson County
Jacksonville, Ore., May 20, 1908.
My Dear Sir:--Owing to the impracticability of my going out all over the county to meet with and talk to each of the voters and taxpayers; and, also on account of the many untruthful articles that are being published, for political purposes, that ought to be denied, I have concluded to write you a personal letter and let you know how I stand on certain matters of public importance that are now of interest to the people of Jackson County. I wish to call your attention to the condition that public highways were in when the present County Court, consisting of Joshua Patterson, Geo. Brown and myself took office. If you have resided in this county for more than four years, you know there were no roads, worth mentioning, that were suitable for hauling loads upon in the winter months; you could not get even from Jacksonville to Medford without wallowing in the mud axle deep; there were 13 crossings on Jackson Creek in a distance of about one mile, and the road was so crooked it would make a snake dizzy to follow it. The roads leading from Sams Valley and Eagle Point to Central Point and to Medford were practically impassable in winter months, as was also the road from Medford to Ashland. All these roads have been greatly improved and much of the work is permanent and will last with slight repairs for years to come. There was no system of road building in the county. Each supervisor worked out the money in his district in the manner he saw fit; and, as there were so many districts, it was impossible to concentrate the work and do anything in the way of permanent improvement. System Changed.
The present County Court decided to change the method of road work by
reducing the number of districts so as to give the supervisors of the
several districts more money and work enough to make it necessary for
these supervisors to make road work their principal business. We
believe that this system has been beneficial. We can see that in most
every district there has been marked improvements in the roads. It was
necessary to make a start somewhere, and the only logical place to
begin was on the principal traveled roads. In other words to begin at
the center of the county and work out on the most traveled roads. These
roads are now in a condition that they will not need much work for some
time and the County Court will be able to give attention to other roads
and in a few years time Jackson County will have the best roads of any
county in the state, if the present policy is pursued.We have had to expend considerable of our funds in the purchase of road machinery. There was no road machinery in the county four years ago, worth mentioning. We have assembled a good outfit of modern road-making machinery and are prepared to go ahead and do much more effective work and get much more done in the next few years than we have in the past. We can truthfully say that there have been made more permanent roads in Jackson County in the past four years, than were made in all the previous history of the county. A Word About the Action of the Board of Equalization.
At the last session of the legislature there was passed a new law
governing the action of the Board of Equalization. Under this law the
Board of Equalization, consisting of the County Judge, County Clerk and
County Assessor, before entering upon the duties of their office, were
compelled to take and subscribe to an oath that they would "faithfully
and honestly examine, correct and equalize at full cash value'' the
assessment roll as returned by the assessor.Each member of the board did take and subscribe on oath of which the following is an extract copy of the one signed by me. I, Geo. W. Dunn, chairman of the Board of Equalization, for the County of Jackson, State of Oregon, said Board convening as by law provided on Monday, October 21st, 1907, at 9 o'clock a.m., do solemnly swear that I will faithfully and honestly examine, correct and equalize at full cash value said assessment roll and all property so returned by such assessor for the year 1907. Signed, GEO. W. DUNN,
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 21st day of October, 1907.County Judge W. R. COLEMAN,
(Seal) County Clerk.
Assessor Fixes Values.
Now the County Court has nothing whatever to do with the assessment.
The assessor has the sole supervision of the assessment. He is supposed
to go out and assess the property; extend it on the tax roll and return
the tax roll to the Board of Equalization for their consideration.
Every taxpayer is supposed to have his property listed thereon. The
valuations are fixed by the assessor. If any person is dissatisfied
with the valuation placed on his property by the assessor the law
provides (Sec. 4, Page 451, 1907 Session Laws) as follows, to wit:
Petitions or applications for the reduction of a particular assessment
shall be made in writing, verified by the oath of the applicant or his
attorney, and be filed with the Board during the first week it is by
law required to be in session, and any application or petition not so
made, verified and filed shall not be considered or acted upon by the
board. A person who does not comply with this law loses his day in
court and cannot afterwards be heard.The assessor informed the board that he had attempted to assess all property at approximately 60 percent of its cash value and upon an examination of the tax roll as returned the board was satisfied that he had not assessed property generally for a greater amount than 60 percent; so by virtue of the law and under our oaths we were compelled to make a proportional raise of all the property on the tax roll. This we did. The law does not require us to give any notice of a raise in the assessments as returned by the assessor, provided we raise all property on the assessment roll, "in a certain proportion in order that the valuation of the property generally upon the rolls shall be its full cash value, as required by law." I ask you in all candor, what would you have done if you were in our situation? Would you have obeyed the law or would you have ignored it and violated your oath? Cost Taxpayers No More.
A proportional raise will hurt no person provided the County Court
bases the tax levy on the same amount of taxes to be raised. In other
words if A were assessed for $600, B, $1200 and C, $1800, and we wanted
to raise $36.00 taxes, we would add the assessments of A, B and C
together and divide $36.00 by the sum, which is $3600, and this would
give us our rate of taxation, which in this case would be 10 mills on
the dollar. Now to find what each should pay we multiply his assessment
by 10 mills and we find that A would pay $6.00, B would pay $12.00, and C
would pay $18.00. Now we will raise the assessment of each 66 and
two-thirds percent, A's assessment will then stand at $1000, B's at
$2000 and C's at $3000. Now we will add these amounts together and we
will find that our total valuation is $6000 instead of $3000 as
formerly. Now we still want to raise $36. We divide this amount by
$6000 and we find that our rate of taxation instead of being 10 mills
is 6 mills. Now multiply each man's property by the rate (6 mills) you
will find A's taxes $6.00, B's $12.00, and C's $18.00 just as before.
It did not make one cent difference in the amount each had to pay.That is just exactly what the board did when they made the raise of 66 and two-thirds percent on the assessed valuation. They did not raise the amount of taxes to be paid by each individual one cent, for if they had not made the raise the rate of taxation would have been 11 and two-third mills on the dollar instead of 7 mills as it now stands. Local Taxes Heavy.
The local taxes for school districts and towns are heavier than the
county taxes. The special taxes for the year 1907 amounted to
$136,154.86 while the general tax amounted to $135,550.20. The County
Court has nothing whatever to do with the special taxes except to see
that they are collected.Take Medford taxes for instance, if you desire to know where the money goes. A man living in Medford who pays taxes on $1000 will pay to the city and school and road district of Medford the sum of $21.80 and to the county, state and roads over which the County Court has control $6.20, or less than a third of the taxes. It does not require an expert to tell you where the money goes. Now the school districts make levies all the way from 1 mill to 20 mills on the dollar, and that is the reason taxes are high. Now there has been a great outcry because someone's money was raised. It made no difference in the case of money except to show that a party who gave in all the money he had was assessed out of proportion to his neighbor. It did not make his taxes one cent higher for the year 1907. The trouble was with the assessment and not the equalization. Assessor Makes Assessment.
The Board of Equalization cannot, in the nature of things, go out and
do assessment work. If a party is unjustly assessed he must come before
the board in the manner provided by law, and if he does not he is
presumed to be satisfied. Some will say, "I did not know how I was
assessed." It is a duty every taxpayer owes to himself and to the
public to see to it that he is properly assessed.Supervisor Expends District Money.
There has been some criticism of the County Court about spending money
that belonged in one road district in another. There has never been
anything of the kind done. Every dollar that belonged in any road
district was paid directly into the County Treasury and placed to the
credit of that district and is drawn by the supervisor of the district
and expended on the roads by the supervisor of that district.The law is plain and says (after providing for the levy): "Said tax shall be paid in money, and collected in the same manner as other county taxes are collected, and when so collected shall be issued for road purposes only, as provided in this act, and fifty percent thereof shall be apportioned to the several road districts, in such proportion as the amount of taxable property in each district bears to the whole amount of taxable property in the county, and the remaining 50 percent shall be applied to roads in such locality in the county as the court may direct.'' This is a good law and makes it possible for the County Court to build roads and do permanent work. I notice that my competitor says that taxes were light when he was County Judge. Let us see about that. I find that the records show that there was levied an annual tax of about 20 mills on the dollar during the years Judge Neil was County Judge. The state tax at that time was less than half what it is now, as was also the school tax, and the road taxes were not made by the County Court, and were not collected by the sheriff, but were collected by the road supervisors. Now, if you will take into consideration these facts you will find that under the administration of Judge Neil you paid just as much or more county tax as you are now paying, notwithstanding the great increase in business. In the year 1895, under Judge Neil's administration the county tax levy for county purposes for that year was 13 mills on the dollar as against 2 mills on the dollar levied this year by the present County Court. Taking into consideration the difference in valuations of property you will see that Judge Neil's county expenses were considerable heavier than under the present administration. Experting the Records.
A certain newspaper has been howling about experting [i.e., auditing] the
books. Not a single reputable citizen has asked to have the books
experted, and the County Court does not know of any good reason for
having this work done until the present officers' terms expire and they
are ready to turn over to their successors their books. It will cost
from $1500 to $2500 to have this work done and when it is done it
should be by competent persons. No person has ever offered to do this
work for a commission.Judge Neil promises to have the books experted. Why did he not have them experted during his time? Geo. E. Bloomer's defalcation of $8000 gave him a good excuse. How about the present ownership book purchased from J. O. Booth by him for $5000 that has never been of any value to the county? All these old-time matters will make interesting reading when the experts get to work. Will Judge Neil have the books experted for the years that he was County Judge? I guess not. I was about to forget the bridges. The Central Point bridge that so much has been said about was examined by a competent bridge builder and pronounced safe. The court wanted to know what was best to be done with the pier that settled, because it was not properly placed (during Judge Neil's administration) and we were advised to tighten the sway rods and let it alone, as it was not likely that it would settle any more and was not enough out of plumb to render it dangerous. Last winter during the freshet in Rogue River a part of the cribbing around the bents that support one end of the Proudfoot bridge was undermined. I sent Jason Hartman to examine the bridge and he reported that nothing in the way of repairing could be done until the water in Rogue River was at the low state and that it was best that the bridge be condemned until that time. That's all, just politics. Since commencing this letter, a local paper that is trying to encompass my defeat by means fair or foul has discovered that the County Court didn't pay a supervisor for building untravelable roads over private property, and said "Dunn ordered road built but will not pay for it," and a whole lot more along that line--lies pure and simple. When candidates for office have to employ such schemes or are parties to them for the purpose of advancing their interest, I submit that they are in pretty desperate circumstances and are unfit to merit the confidence of the public. Very truly,
Political flyer, Ken Kantor collection. Scans retained.GEO. W. DUNN. H. A. Smith left Saturday for Medford, Ore., where he will locate. "Port Arthur News Notes," Houston Post, Texas, June 17, 1908, page 3 Mrs. Robert Lewis and her small sons, Cicero Hunt Lewis third and Robert Wilson Lewis, are guests for a week at the Hotel Moore, Seaside. Later they will visit at the Medford ranch of Mr. and Mrs. Hunt Lewis. "Society," Sunday Oregonian, Portland, July 12, 1908, page 26 GAINESVILLE CLAIMS REWARD.
Will Show Thirty-Seven More Points in Resources Than Medford, Ore. (Houston Post Special.) GAINESVILLE,
Texas, August 2.--Quite a bit of interest has been created in this city
by a challenge which the Commercial Club has taken up. A few weeks ago
the Commercial Club of Medford, Oregon published a list of the
resources of its town and offered $1000 to any town or city which could
show more resources within a radius of forty miles. The gauntlet, thus
thrown down, was not picked up until the Medford advertising booklet
came to the notice of the Gainesville Commercial Club.
The Gainesville list of resources will show that Medford is bested by thirty-seven points, and this list will be forwarded tomorrow with a request that the $1000 be forwarded at once or that Medford show more resources than were given in this booklet. The Gainesville Commercial Club claims that it can show more resources within a radius of twenty miles than Medford can show in forty. The reward will be claimed, but it is understood that Gainesville will compromise by taking half the amount in advertising in the state papers of Texas, Medford to foot the bills. The people will watch with some interest to see which club makes good in its contention. Houston Post, Texas, August 3, 1908, page 4 Grape growers in the Rogue River Valley, Oregon, are delighted because they have discovered that the peculiar red soil of that country will produce the Flame Tokay grape to perfection. One grower set out 100,000 Tokay slips this spring. "Nubbins of Farm News," Weekly Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Indiana, August 5, 1908, page 30 Thurston Daniels, ex-Lieutenant Governor of the State of Washington, formerly of Vancouver, now of Spokane, is in Portland. He has just returned from a visit to Denver, where he attended the National Democratic Convention as a spectator. He visited Colorado Springs, the Cripple Creek district, Salt Lake City and San Francisco in his trip and also stopped off at Medford to visit his son Thurston Daniels, Jr., on his way to Portland. Mr. Daniels has large realty holdings in Spokane. "Personal Mention," Morning Oregonian, Portland, August 6, 1908, page 7 RUNS AWAY WITH ANOTHER'S WIFE
Oregon Man Also Takes Woman's Four Children. Jacksonville,
Oreg., Aug. 15.--C. W. Parker, residing near Jacksonville, bears the
record so far in the Rogue River Valley, the land of big undertakings.
Parker yesterday ran away with the wife of O. A. Olson, taking with her
her four children and Olson's mother-in-law. Their destination was
Seattle, and they shipped their goods under the name of Trumble. Olson
and Parker are both carpenters. Olson's efforts to get sympathy call
out congratulations only.
Palladium Item, Richmond, Indiana, August 16, 1908, page 2 Asbestos, Aug. 17th 1908.
Mr. P. DalySupt. Schools Dear Sir, I wish to call your attention to the burning of the Asbestos school house a week ago last Friday morning at about 9:30 a.m. There is very strong circumstantial evidence against a young girl, Ida Lee Griner, still no one feels like making any charge without an investigation. The facts as I have heard them which point to her as the guilty one are these. 1st she visited the post office at Asbestos run by Mr. Henry Mitchell at 7:00 or thereabouts, leaving there at nine o'clock on horseback. At about 9:30 the school house was discovered on fire and Mr. Ernest Biden was the first on the scene. Mr. Henry Mitchell soon followed and noticed a woman's footprints crossing the road from a tree where she had tied her horse leading back to the school house. Mr. Mitchell traced the same horse track up the post office road. He allowed no one to walk on the tracks around the school house until he had shown them to others whose names he can give you. She then went to the home of a Mrs. Lewis, 4 or 5 miles away, and was there with her parents at dinner. During her stay there Mrs. Lewis' little girl remarked that she was going to attend this school, and the Griner girl said she could not go because the school house had burned down. Mrs. Lewis asked her how she knew it had, and she replied that she saw a smoke there. At this point her mother interrupted with the remark that Ida saw a big fire raging up there as she came from the post office, and it would be sure to burn the school house. Now, the school bell could not be found in the ruins and the Griner girl said she found it on a log between the school house and the Biden residence and took it home. It was seen in the school house by several parties not more than two weeks ago. The girl is a natural born thief and has and has been a general nuisance to the people in this district. She is so thoroughly depraved morally and every other way that her proper place is in a reform school. The people here think that on investigation it will be found she is the guilty one; still, no one likes to take the responsibility of charging her with the crime. I call this to your attention because I have too much valuable property here to run any such risk of fire, and others are situated the same. Respectfully,
MS 318, Southern Oregon Historical Society Research LibraryMrs. I. M. Gardner
Big Oregon Pear Orchard Sold.
Medford, Ore., Aug. 21.--A syndicate of local and eastern capitalists,
headed by John D. Olwell of this city, has purchased the famous pear
orchard of C. H. Lewis, near Medford, for $160,000. This orchard holds
the world's record for the highest price ever paid for a carload of
Comice pears, $6,800.The Chicago Packer, August 22, 1908, page 6 New Industry for Crescent City.
Mr. T. H. B. Taylor is down from Jackson County, Oregon, with his Steam
Feather Renovating plant for the treating of feather beds and pillows.
The feathers are called for in the morning, taken just as they are in
the ticks and during the day are thoroughly washed with steam and dried
by steam, perfectly sterilized and deodorized and returned the same
evening all sewed up ready for immediate use. Each family's work
treated entirely separate. New ticking put on when required. Beds
converted into pillows or vice versa. Beds or pillows sized up or
changed to any size or shape desired.Mr. Taylor has been a resident of Jackson County for thirty years and the Medford Mail, the official newspaper of Jackson County, says anything Mr. Taylor does is a guarantee. As this is strictly a sanitary matter people are quick to see the necessity of it. The feathers are made as pure as snow. Del Norte Record, Crescent City, August 22, 1908, page 3 "The Land of Opportunity" is the title of a series of Western sketches now running in Harper's Weekly. In the last issue the article is illustrated with a series of well-known Southern Oregon fruit pictures. The captions over which they appear in Harper's are "The Grapes of the Roque Rim Valley" and "Picking Pears in the Roque River Valley of Southern Oregon." When a great paper like Harper's Weekly displays such an indifference to accuracy, it is small wonder that so many of the Eastern people are so densely ignorant about the geography of the West. Ignorance or carelessness as displayed in the captions would indicate that the East was also a "land of opportunity"--for education of some of the news writers. Morning Oregonian, Portland, September 16, 1908, page 8 COSS GETS SEVEN YEARS.
H. M. Coss, who was found guilty a few weeks ago of a statutory crime
upon the person of Carrie Stagg, was yesterday sentenced by Judge Hanna
to serve seven years in the penitentiary, and he was at once committed
to the county jail.He Was Sentenced Yesterday, Application to Supreme Court. Coss' attorneys, W. M. Colvig and C. L. Reames, left last night for Salem, where they will apply to the Supreme Court for a certificate of probable cause in the Coss matter, which appeal was denied them by Judge Hanna. Should the certificate be granted it will have the effect of releasing Coss upon his present bond until such time as the case on appeal may be heard by the Supreme Court. Medford Mail, October 23, 1908, page 4 ARCHITECT PALMER DIES IN ROSEBURG
Isaac A. Palmer,
an architect well known in this city, died Tuesday in the Soldier's
Home in Roseburg, where he went a few days ago from this city. Mr.
Palmer was a veteran of the Civil War. He was a member of the G.A.R.
post here and of the Redmen Lodge.
Mr. Palmer was an architect of no mean ability. He was for a number of years in Honolulu, where he drew the plans for Queen Liliuokalani's palace, noted for its inside decorations. He also planned the Haleiwa Hotel, 75 miles from Honolulu, known as one of the most convenient resorts of the islands. He has done considerable work in Medford, among his latest the designing of the new Young & Hall building. Medford Mail, October 29, 1908, page 1 Many Indian Visitors.
Yesterday there came in from the agency in Klamath County five
four-horse teams and one single team driven and owned by Indians from
the reservation. These people are after supplies for their families'
uses during the winter. A few years since it was no uncommon thing for
these people to come here to trade, and their coming now simply shows
that the reputation of our merchants' fair dealing has not depreciated
with time.Medford Mail, October 29, 1908, page 2 PALMER BUYS AT MEDFORD
MEDFORD,
Or., Nov. 12.--(Special.)--A land deal of considerable moment has been
closed here by which Honore Palmer, son of the late Chicago
millionaire, becomes owner of 1300 acres of land. This body of land is
of the most productive in the county and lies on both sides of the
Rogue River, 12 miles north of Medford. This particular section along
the Rogue River is the finest fishing grounds on the coast
and well known to many famous fishermen from abroad.CHICAGO MILLIONAIRE MAKES $37,000 INVESTMENT. Dr. E. B. Pickel's "401" Ranch Sells for Over $100,000--Palmer's Land to Be Subdivided. The price paid for the land is $37,000 cash. Mr. Palmer expects to divide the land into five- and ten-acre tracts and place them on the market. Besides this investment, which he made on his recent trip here, he also bought copper mining property located near the well-known Blue Ledge Mine, about 30 miles southwest of Medford. Following the sale to Honore Palmer comes another one of interest [illegible] Cannon, C. W. Perkins and B. Gilman of San Francisco, and T. W. [illegible] of Fresno, Cal. purchased Dr. E. B. Pickel's ranch, known as the "401" ranch, and containing 561 acres, 235 acres planted to commercial varieties of apples 1 to 4 years old, and 100 acres ready for planting. The balance is planted to pears. While the exact price has not yet been made public, it is known to be over $100,000. Morning Oregonian, Portland, November 13, 1908, page 9 Some valuable Oregon property near Medford was recently purchased by Honore Palmer, of Chicago. Mr. Palmer, it will be remembered, bought considerable Oregon land last year, and for a time resided in Eugene, Or., with his distinguished mother, Mrs. Potter Palmer. Apropos of Mrs. Palmer, she gave this past month a brilliant dinner in London, complimentary to King Edward. Having heard the King express a desire to hear the famous American artiste, Madame Fremstad, sing, Mrs. Palmer negotiated with the singer, who came over from Paris to England expressly for the event. "Society," Sunday Oregonian, Portland, November 22, 1908, page 26 Medford Creamery Burns.
MEDFORD,
Or., Nov. 24.--Fire at 1:10 p.m. today destroyed the Medford Creamery,
involving a loss of approximately $3000 on the building and equipment
and damage to household goods of the owner, Mr. Gaddis, of nearly $1000
additional. The alarm was sounded during a rainstorm, and adjoining
buildings within 10 feet were saved in consequence.
Morning Oregonian, Portland, November 25, 1908, page 9 |
|
